Participated · Seed · Jun 2026

Braven develops AI agents aimed at the insurance industry. The company worked closely with a single design partner and spent about six months building the product and commercial playbook before scaling sales. After that period, Braven acquired eight B2B clients within a three-week span. The founder, Carlos Chavez, relocated to San Francisco and pursued in-person outreach such as conference attendance and direct calls to prospective customers. Braven has completed a roughly $5 million seed round from San Francisco VCs according to the reporting. The articles do not disclose revenue figures, valuation, or detailed future product roadmaps.

Participated · Seed · Oct 2025

Woz offers a production-ready "AI App Factory" that decomposes the software-building process into discrete steps handled by specialized AI agents, with expert engineers intervening whenever the system encounters edge cases and completing a rigorous quality review. The resulting codebases are clean, secure, and human-readable, differentiating the company from rapid-prototype “vibe-coding” tools that often create throw-away code. Today the platform can generate thousands of high-quality mobile apps in parallel for entrepreneurs, SMBs, and global brands that lack large engineering teams. Management plans to expand beyond mobile into web, TV, IoT, AR/VR, and highly regulated verticals such as healthcare and insurance. Founded by MIT engineers Ben Collins and Brad Eckert, Woz positions itself as an enterprise alternative to consumer-grade AI app builders whose traffic is already declining. The company’s headquarters are in San Francisco, and the new capital will be used for product development and key hires. To date, Woz has raised $6 million in external funding.

Participated · Seed · Jul 2025

Cascade Space is building the Cascade Portal, an end-to-end platform for satellite communication system design, test, and operations. The company recently open-sourced spacelink, a Python library with functions for communication system analysis used in the Portal. Cascade says the tools are intended to accelerate communication system design and reduce a major bottleneck for companies operating in lunar and deep space. The team includes veteran space engineers from SpaceX and Astra. The company will use the funding to accelerate development of its platform and related infrastructure. Cascade Space was founded in 2025 and is based in San Francisco.

Participated · Seed · Jul 2025

Asepha develops a stack of interoperable AI agents that streamline pharmacy workflows and reduce administrative burden. Its product suite includes an OCR prescription-entry agent with 96% accuracy, a call agent that automates up to 70% of inbound phone calls, and a browser-navigation agent for real-time web tasks. Validation experiments found pharmacists preferred Asepha’s AI responses over a human pharmacist’s responses 71% of the time in a double-blinded randomized trial. The company targets pharmacies facing acute staffing shortages—about 70% of pharmacies are understaffed and pharmacists spend as much as 90% of their time on analog administrative work. Asepha has secured multiple Fortune 50 enterprise customers, demonstrating early commercial traction. With the new funding it plans to grow engineering and go-to-market teams, expand global partnerships, and increase its U.S. footprint with a New York City office.

Participated · Series A · May 2024

Authentic offers a tech-enabled platform that compresses the complexity of captive insurance, enabling partners to create their own captive programs with one line of code. Its product lets SaaS platforms, associations, and other communities offer tailored insurance products to their members. The company takes a fee to underwrite, handle claims, and manage capital markets and reinsurance for partner programs. Led by founder and CEO Cole Riccardi, Authentic serves small business groups and individuals through partner channels. The company raised $11M in Series A funding and plans to use the proceeds to expand operations and accelerate development efforts. No other financial metrics or past rounds were disclosed in the article. Authentic is a tech-enabled platform that lets vertical SaaS companies, franchises, associations, and other groups create captive insurance programs. Led by CEO and founder Cole Riccardi and based in New York City and Dayton, Ohio, the company handles the logistics of setting up captives, including legal domicile and administration. Its platform also manages underwriting tasks (rate filings, pricing, actuarial analysis), reinsurance and capital (reinsuring and capitalizing captives), plus claims management and customer servicing. Authentic has launched with initial customers and reports a waitlist of customers slated to launch throughout Q4 2023. It currently offers Business Owner’s Policy (BOP) coverage and is targeting businesses in food & beverage, salon & spa, retail, fitness, and professional services. The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and broaden its business reach.